Ayupmeducks
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Yep and it were'nt nowt to do with uneconomic pits either!
I was reading an article a short time back by the UK governments advisor on energy, and he was advising the government to rethink opening up many of the close pits. It appears the government is neglecting to plan ahead and North Sea oil and gas are running out!!!
Pray tell me as an ex pitman how one can reopen pits that have been close twenty years or more and flooded with water? The simple answer is, you can't! The coal reserves are sterilized for ever! I spent over 25 years of my life underground and know the problems associated with old workings.
Not to mention the longer the government waits, the less skilled miners are available. Those that were made redundant in the 80's are all nearing retirement age or are retired.
They have a lot to answer for, them damned politicians.
Just as an example, it costs somewhere in the region of $60million to install a new coal face with equipment, not taking into account the cost of roadway drivage's. If someone doesn't make a decision soon on Selby, it will be lost forever, billions of tonnes of high quality coal!
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My dad was at Clifton, Patrick Lunn is his name, although his nick name was Sol, it started out as Sally (as in Sally Lunn) but eventually turned into Sol. After Clifton closed he went to work at Gedling. Hated every minute of it, always said that Clifton was 'best little pit in town' !!!
I see if I can pry a few memories out of him.
It sure was, stayed just a few months at Cotgrave just to finish me apprenticeship then left the industry.
Don't recall your Dad, what was his job, might help me to shake the cobwebs from the loft!
I was an electrical apprentice there, started in 1964 and was in the second lot to be "moved out", Did a bit of drawing off and on to Cotgrave in May 1968.
Was a a real shame after the NCB had spent so much money on the drift develepments from 51's main gate area, ready for the driving of the two drifts down to the next seam, which they told us would last 50 years!!!!
I do have some JPEG photos of the pit Mick, including some from the 1890's taken underground, also I'm sure it was Jean who sent me one of the pit after closure. Also managed to get Wollaton Hall to send me some they had, including the diarama photos the feller took for me and emailed me. Managed to get some pland of the underground workings off the Coal Authority a couple of years back of the Deep hard, Tupton and Piper seams.
John
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Here's one for you! Who were the most recorded group in recording history, surpassing the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Abba, Elvis and The BeachBoys all rolled into one!!!!!
Bet no one gets it!!!
Clue .... Motown....
John
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Yer fergot yoof, Clifton Estate and the "new" St Anns estate....I hear you need a bullet proof vest to live up there anymore
Me and the ex missus went to Clifton, closer for work for me at the time as I worked at East Leake.
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Ahhhh my old local, Sir Richard Arkwright, many a good pint was sunk in that pub! Mansfield Brewery, still from the wood when I started drinking in there in 1965 just before my 18th, whoops!!! oh well, nowt wrong wi truth!
Chris and Anne ??? were mine hosts then and when they retired Barrie Price took over. I worked for him as a barman at weekends and the odd night during the week when I wasn't on shifts at Clifton pit.
Met my ex missus there when I was behind the bar, probably should have changed locals at that point....LOL
Might be a couple of members remember me from there!
There use to be a chippie near the TBI thats served curry and chips to eat out, used to walk up there after closing time for a bag of curried chicken and chips to eat on the way home.
John
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I on't Know about the violin case, perhaps that was the bods going to the Becket School?
I undestood that the folks over the river lived in big expensive houses and consequently had to survive on Bread and Lard.
We in the Meadows with more modest abodes could afford dripping for our toast!
Yer mekkin me mouf water...Pork dripping on toast "wiv" the jelly..Hmmmmmm
Yep, thats the answer, houses were expensive on that side of the river and loads of folk wanted to look better than them on the "tother" side of the river, hence bread and lard island!
John
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Any of the older members work "dahn pit".??? I worked for Lord Robens during the 60's at Clifton, then when it closed on to Cotgrave.
Remember all those headstocks around Nottingham? Babbington, Gedling, Wollaton, Radford, Linby, Hucknall no1 and 2, Clifton, Cotgrave,Bestwood, then all those around the north of the city to the borders with Yorkshire, all gone now. There are kids now who won't know what a headstocks looks like, or the chugging of the steam engine as it raised coal, men and materials.
Nottingham had a proud mining heritage going back hundreds of years, gone with the lace industry and relegated to the museums now.
John ex Clifton Check number 360
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Again, John Welcome
Where in the States?
If your in LA you can mek us a brew!
No wouldn't catch me dead in LA mate, 'cept to catch a plane out
We did live in Sacramento for a few years, we are in south central Missouri, the missus's home state, ten miles due east of the county seat of Alton way out in the sticks, where we don't need planning permission or planning permits to do what we want on our own land. $54 a year land taxes on 80 acres too :o Gas is lots cheaper than California too
Life is safer and hardly any crime, 'cept some kids doing 75mph down the main highway 
Bloody Claifornia
we paid a couple of grand for a years land taxes there on ten acres of mountain country...Where a water well permit cost $3000, exorbitant car registration, gas and other high costs of living, not to mention crime so rampant it paid to have a concealed weapons permit Nahhhh, like living here in Gods country :D
Caz, used to live in Bathurst NSW, worked over near Lithgow for the NSW Eletricity Commission as an electrician down one of their pits before it was all sold off. I spent a couple of years in Wollongong too.
Where in Vic do you live??? My cuz has a winery at Cassilus in north east Vic, helped him build his house several years back. Been all around East Gippsland, so know the area pretty well, and suspect as you said north east Vic you must be around that area.
Caz, never went to the Santa Fay, so have no idea where it was or looked like. Went straight to the pubs where I spent a better part of my youth playing darts, drinking Shippos best...OOOOO the next morning though! Bog gotta a beating :o
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Ayupmeducks, ayaavin one later on, or is yuz gotta stopin toneet.
Geeuz anuver pint mate!
I'll bloody batcha tab if yer don't be'ave yer sen...
Gerron the corsey afore I bats yer tab yer little bugga!
There's a few and warrabaht....yer daft meducks, yer foller ballons!
John :D
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Some of my old mates used to go to the Santa Fa during the 60's lost contact with them years ago, Johnnie Booth, Stuart "Sten" Stenson, Barry "Clem" Clements, Glen ??? Anyone remember them or what has happened to them? Been trying to find Boothy, Sten and Glen for ages, no one seems to know what happened to them. Boothy went to Mundella, Sten went to Deering School. Found Clem a couple of years back through his son.
Let me introduce myself being as I'm a newbie here. I lived in the "medders" in the 60's at Osman Terrace on Briers Street opposite Hosene factory, and on Kirke White Street East later on. Served most of my electrical apprenticeship at Clifton Colliery. Worked with the Shaws, Tom and Bill, plus Bill's oldest Son Trev and his youngest son too. Some may recall the Shaw family of the "medders" big family.
My name is John Waudby, I now live stateside after living in Oz for ten years. Left Nottingham around 1975 to live in North Yorks where I worked until Leaving the UK for good.
Most of my upbringing was in the St Anns area off St Anns Well Road, but Mum and Dad moved to the Meadows about 1960 where we lived until I was about 22 and the area was condemned and the council moved us all over, we ended up at Clifton Estate.
My old local was the Sir Richard Arkwright, on Arkright Street, anyone recall the old pub??? I used to have a beer or two in the "Stute" but got fed up with more coal being cut there than "dahn pit" so avoided it like the plague!
Enough I hear, were are getting bored!
John
G'day Mite
in Our Caz's Nottingham Ex-Pats Forum
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There used to be a small bakery on Woodborough Road just around the corner from Huntingdon Street in the late 50's early 60's that had hot fresh bread. The owner was an Irishman and his missus. We used to spend out daily spending money on a laof of crust bread, or hot buttered mini Hovis's on the way to school!!! Hmmmmm I think it was called O'Shea's bakery, "bin" many years now!
John